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Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Good Wife's 'Dark Money' is all about tweed and green

Alicia in red-and-black plaid suit(credit: WornOnTV.com)

Episode 13 of The Good Wife called “Dark Money” features its leading ladies in some
green and lots and lots of tweed.

Alicia Florrick and Diane Lockhart are
two sides of the same coin on many levels, but especially their fashion sense.
They’re conservative dressers overall, but they wear their tasteful suits like
gazelles, managing to glide through space.

Alicia begins the episode in a tweed
red and black-stenciled plaid skirt suit with black tights are undeniably
preppy, but those towering Louboutin pumps give her an Amazonian edge. Think of
this as her Cluelessoutfit.

Diane stays decked out in tweed suits
including a suit skirt with a cropped jacket, but throws in a red satin blazer
to keep things fresh.

Just as Alicia is influenced by Diane’s
style, Eli Gold’s daughter Marissa has started to wear body-con dresses and
tights, like the embroidered paisley red and black dress she wears with black
tights and heels; it’s a sophisticated look that’s less severe than a suit.
Interestingly, Marissa’ s body-con dresses are worn when she’s chatting with
Colin Sweeney’s wife Renata who stays wrapped in body-con dresses with ruched
bodices and see-through chiffons.

Kalinda’s obsessed with evergreen in
this episode possibly because she’s in an unfamiliar situation with Lamont Bishop:
escorting Lamont’s son to school and coming into his house, which is sort of
like playing house since there is no mom in the picture. The color green is
applied to Kalinda’s usual shapes of body-con dresses and asymmetric lines that
reflect her contradictions.Her various
moto-jackets and trench coats are her version of noir, which reflect her
mysteriousness.

There’s a skirt suit that Alicia wears
when she’s talking to Colin Sweeney that I call the “French Window” dress
because the white stitching looks like a French window pane made out of a
spider’s silk. Alicia is surprisingly more open-minded with Colin as opposed to
their earlier scene in her guarded plaid.

By the end of the episode, Alicia’s
sitting on her living room sofa having an emotional moment with her daughter
Grace, while dressed in a cream cashmere sweater with ribbed front; Alicia
looks comfortable instead of the high-fashion armor she wears to work.

A standout of the episode is Renata’s
maroon halter bodice body-con dress with chiffon sleeves that she wears while
making sexual expressions at Colin in court. It’s a dress that is pure sex, all
tight and see-through, and perfect for an exhibitionist like Renata.